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10021Red hots! Get Your Red Hots!http://www.dragonstrider.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/461-Red-hots!-Get-Your-Red-Hots!.html
Cool, Funny or OddPersonalhttp://www.dragonstrider.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/461-Red-hots!-Get-Your-Red-Hots!.html#commentshttp://www.dragonstrider.com/serendipity/wfwcomment.php?cid=4612http://www.dragonstrider.com/serendipity/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=461nospam@example.com (Joseph S. Tate)
When I was in high school, I sold drinks and hot dogs for the University of Utah home football games to earn a little extra money*. I walked around the stadium with a big tray of sodas or an insulated box of hot dogs. I'd call out "Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite" or "Red hots! Get your red hots!". Ten years later, I find out that Red Hots are a <a href="http://carolinapackers.com/redhots.html" title="Carolina Packers; Bright Leaf Brand Red Hots">real product</a>, and they are awesome. Red Hots are stubby, thick hot dogs, colored red, with a bit of spiciness. I sat down to have a couple for lunch today with 'kraut and brown mustard and reminisced about cold Utah Saturday mornings at (then) Rice Stadium walking up and down the aisles and circling the stadium. If only the hot dogs I sold as "red hots" 16 years ago had been real Red Hots, I would have been able to sell twice as many.<br />
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* I say a little, but as a vendor, you started out selling drinks. A hard working vendor could make between $50 and $100 in about 2.5 hours (they stopped refilling trays at the end of the 3rd quarter) and you could watch the end of the game anywhere you wanted to. If you had been there long enough and worked hard enough, you get promoted to hot dogs. A hot dog vendor could make $150 to $200 in the same time frame. As a high schooler in the early 90s, that beat working at <a href="http://www.hiresbigh.com/" title="Hires Big-H Drive-In">Hires</a>.
Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:07:08 +0000http://www.dragonstrider.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/461-guid.htmlNew Biofuel Systemhttp://www.dragonstrider.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/386-New-Biofuel-System.html
Cool, Funny or OddTechnologyhttp://www.dragonstrider.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/386-New-Biofuel-System.html#commentshttp://www.dragonstrider.com/serendipity/wfwcomment.php?cid=3862http://www.dragonstrider.com/serendipity/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=386nospam@example.com (Joseph S. Tate)
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/07/27/27greenwire-start-ups-biofuel-recipe-mixes-co2-slime-and-su-7562.html" title="Joule Helioculture">This technology</a> is probably the only <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofuel" title="Biofuel Wikipedia">biofuel</a> technology I'm really excited about. Unlike E85, it doesn't use food crops, and although algae based programs don't compete directly with food crops, they still require fermentation of cellulose, or refining of algae produced oil to create fuel. More links <a href="http://gas2.org/2009/11/10/biofuels-breakthrough-making-fuel-from-air-with-engineered-microbes/" title="gas2.0 article on helioculture">here</a> and <a href="http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/blog2/2009/11/10/fuel-from-thin-air-joule-reports-direct-microbial-conversion-of-co2-into-hydrocarbons-no-biomass-no-extraction-no-refinement/" title="Biofuels Digest Article on helioculture">here</a>. <a href="http://joulebio.com/" title="http://joulebio.com/">Joule Biotechnologies website here.</a> I've been thinking for a while that we should be able to extract CO2 from the atmosphere and produce fuel. Now Joule has gone and built something that might be able to do that.
Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:01:49 +0000http://www.dragonstrider.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/386-guid.htmlI'm not the only one who feels this way!http://www.dragonstrider.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/50-Im-not-the-only-one-who-feels-this-way!.html
Cool, Funny or OddMiscelaneoushttp://www.dragonstrider.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/50-Im-not-the-only-one-who-feels-this-way!.html#commentshttp://www.dragonstrider.com/serendipity/wfwcomment.php?cid=500http://www.dragonstrider.com/serendipity/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=50nospam@example.com (Joseph S. Tate)
I'm not the only one who thinks the impersonal traffic light is a bad idea. However, in contrast to my thinking (which is that a new type of traffic control device needs to be invented), Hans Monderman, thinks we <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/04/ntraffic04.xml" title="Is this the end of the traffic light?">should just do away with them all together</a>. He even has a Dutch city of 50,000 as a test scenario. I wonder how long it will take until this idea becomes prevalent.
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